TABLE 11-1 an Airline Wants to Select a Computer Software Package for Package

question 22

Multiple Choice

TABLE 11-1
An airline wants to select a computer software package for its reservation system. Four software packages (1, 2, 3, and 4) are commercially available. The airline will choose the package that bumps as few passengers as possible during a month. An experiment is set up in which each package is used to make reservations for 5 randomly selected weeks. (A total of 20 weeks was included in the experiment.) The number of passengers bumped each week is obtained, which gives rise to the following Excel output:

-Referring to Table 11-1, the total degrees of freedom is

• A) 3.
• B) 4.
• C) 16.
• D) 19.

Learn about the effects of reactance and situations likely to induce such responses.

Recognize research ethics, including the use of deception, informed consent, and the necessity for debriefing.

Differentiate between laboratory and field experiments, correlational studies, and quasi-experiments in terms of validity and application settings.

Understand the concept of experimental and mundane realism and their importance in research.

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